Terminal -x question

houghi houghi at houghi.org
Sat Oct 23 18:23:44 CEST 2010


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:23:17AM +0200, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Hi Houghi,
> 
> I wrote an article on using XTerm as log viewers. It works with
> devilspie to make them less "real windows".
> 
> http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xterm-as-root-tail

I use devilspie already. (1)
 
> You can of course replace xterm with terminal. You will probably need
> to run it with the following command-line:
> 
>   XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config-special/ terminal --disable-server
> --class=DesktopLog -x ...
> 
> and install a particular configuration for Terminal within
> ~/.config-special/Terminal/terminalrc. For instance, don't show tabs,
> set the background color, etc. Well, I hope you get the picture.

This is interesting as it will solve the issue that teminals normally all
having the same background color. So thanks for this.

(1) It is a pity that devilsie is not better integrated into XFCE. e.g. in
Windowmaker many of these things are standard for each and every program.
Add or remove border, Stick it to a screen and other things. It is the one
main thing I miss in XFCE.

houghi
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